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Healing hard-working hands

The names we use to describe different hand injuries tell us about history, gender and class. Occupational therapist María Cristina Jiménez explores those injuries, and the changing ways we talk about them.

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Why all of us are evil

Science proves that we’re all capable of evil: your secret fantasy about killing someone you hate is surprisingly normal. But the way to better moral choices is to fight emotional instinct.

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Sockets and stumps

Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.

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The evil eye and social anxiety

The ‘look’ of the evil eye is believed to bring bad luck, illness or even death. This ancient curse might be deliberate, inflicted with an envious glare, or it could be accidental, the result of undue attention or excessive praise.

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  • Dr. Hand's remedies for children : pleasant physic, colic cure, teething lotion, worm elixir, diarrhoea mixture, general tonic, cough and croup medicine, chafing powder.
  • Dr. Hand's remedies for children : pleasant physic, colic cure, teething lotion, worm elixir, diarrhoea mixture, general tonic, cough and croup medicine, chafing powder.
  • His Excellency Professor Dr. von Bergmann, the celebrated Berlin surgeon, writes: : "The best means of treatment at present is the Bardella because it can be kept ready at hand for immediate use ...".
  • Facts, for the most part unobserved, or not duly noticed, respecting variolous contagion / [Edward Jenner].
  • Amatikulu, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa: a settlement for people with leprosy. Watercolour by E. Schwarz, 1920/1950 (?).
  • Portrait of Dr. Lorenz Weniger.
  • A newly pruned palm tree, which harbours the mite that causes scrub typhus: close-up of the trunk. Photograph, ca. 1930.
  • St Marylebone Infirmary, London: Basil Hood and J.R. Lunn. Photograph, c. 1940.
  • Military Hospital V.R. 76, Ris-Orangis, France: two doctors. Photograph, 1916.
  • A newly pruned palm tree, which harbours the mite that causes scrub typhus. Photograph, ca. 1930.
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Performance by Dr Will Houstoun

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Part of Smoke and Mirrors Live Performances

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